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As a fellow New Yorker, I've been following Donald Trump for years, long before he got involved in politics.
When he dared to comment on foreign policy, people ridiculed him. What did Trump know? National security was the preserve of experts, not real estate developers or reality TV stars.
But in retrospect, Trump was right on every major foreign policy issue. It was the entitled elites who got things wrong!
Former President Trump holds a campaign rally at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on November 4, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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China
For decades, the consensus was that if the United States supported China's economic growth, China would become a friendly trading partner and play by the rules like Japan, South Korea and European countries. Mr. Trump disagreed. Experts laughed when he claimed that China has been exploiting us for decades. “China has raided our factories, offshored our jobs, destroyed our industries, stolen our intellectual property, and broken our commitments under global trade agreements.”
In 2019, Joe Biden mocked the idea that China could overtake the United States as world leader, telling a crowd in Iowa City, “Is China going to eat our lunch? Come on, dude.” spoke. The experts were wrong and Trump was right.
America's energy advantage
Long before he ran for president in 2015, Trump recognized that recent advances in oil and gas production would represent a strategic shift for the United States and the world. When President Barack Obama left office, oil prices were $120 per barrel and experts warned that the world was running out of oil.
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President Trump's support for the U.S. energy industry has increased U.S. production and pushed oil prices down to $40 per barrel. It not only fueled tremendous economic growth in America, but also devastated the economies of Russia and Iran, which required oil prices of over $90 per barrel to finance their governments. When energy export revenues fell by nearly two-thirds during the Trump administration, Russia and Iran were forced to tighten their grip. They could not afford an expensive war.
Mr. Biden reversed Mr. Trump's energy policies, and oil prices rose to $100 per barrel as expected. Iran used these windfall profits to fund its nuclear program and arm its proxies to attack Israel. Russia used its newfound wealth to attack Ukraine. There's a reason why Russia invaded Ukraine during the Obama and Biden eras, but not during the Trump era. In the Trump era, there was no money to pay for expensive wars.
Iraq war and Afghanistan war
Democrats and Republicans supported the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 years. Mr. Trump disagreed. In 2003, he called the Iraq war a “chaos.” Turns out he was right. We shed American blood and spent trillions of dollars in two unwinnable forever wars.
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Iran
President Trump withdrew from President Obama's flawed Iran nuclear deal. Because it made Iran rich and did not stop its nuclear weapons program. He ordered the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran's Quds Force. Instead of fruitless and endless negotiations, President Trump set out to bankrupt Iran with energy policy and oil sanctions.
By the time President Trump left office, Iran was nearly bankrupt and its proxy military was weakened. But President Biden has thrown Iran a lifeline. He reversed course on American energy production, paid billions of dollars to Iran, and refused to impose sanctions. Iran used this $100 billion windfall to finance Hamas and Hezbollah in a new proxy war against Israel.
Abraham Accords
For decades, American leaders have insisted that the Palestinian issue must be resolved as a first step toward broader Arab-Israeli peace. However, peace proved difficult as the Palestinians repeatedly refused serious negotiations.
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Trump took the opposite approach, focusing on Arab-Israeli peace as a first step. His energy policies caused world oil prices to fall. Arab leaders realized that they could no longer rely solely on oil export revenues to finance their governments. They needed to diversify their economy, and to do that they needed peace with Israel.
President Trump also recognized that a younger generation of Arab leaders, educated in the West and accustomed to more open societies, would be more attuned to dramatic social changes and the development of economic relations with Israel. did. The Abraham Accords were the first ever peace agreement between Israel and the Sunni Gulf states. Trump has succeeded where all the experts have failed for decades.
NATO
American presidents dating back to the days of John F. Kennedy complained that NATO allies were not paying their fair share for the common defense. President Obama called them “freeloaders.” Our allies always made excuses, claiming they couldn't afford the 2% of GNP they promised, and relied on America for defense spending.
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Trump reprimanded and threatened NATO allies until they finally increased their defense spending. Turns out they had money.
For years, bureaucrats, politicians, and experts in Washington have misunderstood the major foreign policy issues facing this country. I needed an outsider to see things from a different perspective. President Trump has reestablished American security through a combination of trade, economics, and common sense, instead of endless rounds of futile diplomacy and open checkbooks. And his second term will be even better.
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